Tech Lead Manager, Risk & Value Optimisation

Neara

Tech Lead Manager in charge of leading engineering team for Risk & Value Optimisation analytics platform. Building a solution to assist utilities with risk exposure and optimization of investments.

Posted 7/16/2026full-timeSydney • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong technical leadership and mentoring capabilities, with a focus on delivering complex, production-grade systems. Possesses a solid foundation in computer science or related fields, and excels in collaborating across teams to drive customer-focused outcomes.

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Technical LeadershipSystem DesignData StructuresProject ManagementGeospatial Systems

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Hard Skills

Production-Grade SystemsSystem ArchitectureData IngestionComplex Project DeliveryMathematical Reasoning

Soft Skills

MentoringAccountabilityAdaptabilityDetail-OrientedCommunication

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's Degree in Mathematics

Industry Keywords

Geospatial SystemsUtilitiesEnergySimulationRegulated Products

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own delivery end to end: plan and execute work across one or more quarters, set clear goals with your team and hold them to account, and make sure work ships reliably, sustainably, and in full.
Lead, grow, and mentor the team: develop ~3 engineers (in a cross-functional team of ~5) in their craft and quality of execution, support their career growth, and guide architecture, decision-making, and technical scaffolding - setting the standard for communication, accountability, and engineering culture. Your technical leadership and influence lifts others building on RVO too, including Customer Success - beyond your direct reports.
Stay hands-on where you multiply the team: contribute to system design and architectural decisions, and write and review production-quality code across performance-critical, data-intensive components. This isn't a hands-off role: you'll lead best by understanding the substance.
Own the technical core of RVO: Balance what lives in our core engineering platform versus the application layer, so the solution stays performant, flexible, and maintainable as it grows.
Work with complex, large-scale data: shape the ingestion and data structures that synthesise disparate sources (GIS, LiDAR, asset condition, historical failures) with a rich geospatial library, across very large networks.
Partner across the business, and look ahead: work closely with Product, Deployment, Customer Success, and Sales, and get in front of customers to understand the problems utilities face. Spot the platform capabilities other teams own that RVO will depend on, and line them up before your team needs them.
Raise the bar across engineering: influence best practices, tooling, and long-term platform direction, and help scale Neara's engineering culture as we grow.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A technical people-leader who's owned delivery end to end: comfortable operating across engineering and product, accountable for outcomes not just outputs, and experienced leading, mentoring, and growing engineers at multiple levels.
You get up to speed fast in unfamiliar territory: you've walked into a technical area you didn't already know, built context without hand-holding, found the heart of the problem, and delivered. This aptitude matters most to us.
Product sense, and a strong partner to Product: you keep the team focused on customer outcomes, and stay close to what utilities actually face - bringing an engineering perspective to hard, open-ended problems rather than waiting to be handed them.
You plan a route, then adapt as you learn: you've delivered ambitious, complex projects incrementally - shipping real progress along the way and changing course on evidence rather than clinging to the original plan.
Deep technical credibility: a strong track record architecting and shipping complex, production-grade systems, with the judgement to go deep and make sound trade-offs without out-experting the specialists.
Formal grounding: a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
No-ego, outcome-oriented, and detail-obsessed: our work influences large-scale investment decisions, so we deliver polished, pristine outcomes, and we always have each other's backs.
Nice to have: Experience leading software teams on financial, investment, statistical modelling or other analysis-heavy, regulated products.
Exposure to geospatial systems, utilities, energy, simulation, or physics-based platforms; and strong mathematical reasoning or a mechanical, civil, or electrical engineering background.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary + ESOP
Fully flexible working arrangements with a well-stocked office in Redfern
Annual company-wide offsite
Highly meritocratic, non-bureaucratic, and no-ego work culture
The opportunity to work on complex, meaningful products and real-world problems
The opportunity to play a direct, critical role in the trajectory of a high growth company.
Neara values diversity, belonging, and equal employment opportunities. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.